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"You shouldn't be so desperate to buy more time that you neglect to spend what you do have together." | "You shouldn't be so desperate to buy more time that you neglect to spend what you do have together." | ||
To accept death as part of life, to understand that the sorrow of parting is the price to pay for the joy of meeting -- it's a way for a god like him to quietly put away the mortal lovers and friends he's had as good memories. | To accept death as part of life, to understand that the sorrow of parting is the price to pay for the joy of meeting -- it's a way for a god like him to quietly put away the mortal lovers and friends he's had as good memories. It's melancholic and fatalistic in the spirit of "nothing can be done about it", but it's part of who he is at this point as opposed to Yufu, who desired to change the way of a world that he thought was broken and cruel. | ||
One of the big impressions that led me to this theme was reading the "Gedou" series by [https://x.com/poisoner_batta Batta]; in that multi-doujin series, a fox is unable to accept the aging and death of her human husband. Because of her increasingly obsessive acts, she ends up unintentionally destroying his entire family line. | One of the big impressions that led me to this theme was reading the "Gedou" series by [https://x.com/poisoner_batta Batta]; in that multi-doujin series, a fox is unable to accept the aging and death of her human husband. Because of her increasingly obsessive acts, she ends up unintentionally destroying his entire family line. | ||
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Kumiromi is another god whose theme heavily draws from the cycle of death and rebirth, but I think he deals more with the aspect of it related to the natural world, rather than that of emotional and spiritual forces. | Kumiromi is another god whose theme heavily draws from the cycle of death and rebirth, but I think he deals more with the aspect of it related to the natural world, rather than that of emotional and spiritual forces. | ||
Death and parting are not things that gods handle well in general; one has to only look at Itzpalt and Odina's story, or Kumiromi and Ehekatl's relationship, to understand how deeply traumatic it must have been for everyone involved. I think it's only with this philosophy, this acceptance of death as a worthy price to be paid for life that a god can safely have deep, meaningful interactions with mortals that involve the entire palette of human emotions. | Death and parting are not things that the gods of Ylva handle well in general; one has to only look at Itzpalt and Odina's story, or Kumiromi and Ehekatl's relationship, to understand how deeply traumatic it must have been for everyone involved. I think it's only with this philosophy, this acceptance of death as a worthy price to be paid for life that a god can safely have deep, meaningful interactions with mortals that involve the entire palette of human emotions. | ||
Without sorrow, how would one appreciate joy? | Without sorrow, how would one appreciate joy? | ||